Restoration of Atmospheric Turbulence Degraded Video Using Kurtosis Minimization and Motion Compensation

To my mom, Mei, my wife, Nan and in memory of my grandma, Yanqing for all of your love iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank Prof. Stanley Reeves of Auburn university who provided help with the implementation of Generalized Cross Validation (GCV). There are many helpful feedbacks from the readers of our papers. For example, Lalaké Apoyan pointed out the scintillation effects of turbulence. Mathworks, Philips Research Lab for offering me the internships during my degree program. Very special thanks go to Dr. Steven Simske from HP lab for his support and encouragement throughout my program. loved, encouraged, and motivated me through all the ups and downs in my life. They had confidence in me when I had little confidence in myself. I thank my dogs, Kelly, Vanilla and Cookie for making our lives more enjoyable.